Retail and chemical giant Lotte Group is ramping up efforts to tap deeper into Southeast Asia and advanced economies, as sales in China, once its biggest overseas market, continue to fall.
Industry sources told Yonhap that overseas sales of the conglomerate came to 8.9 trillion won (US$7.49 billion) in 2018, up 7.2 per cent from a year earlier.
It marks a turnaround from a near 7 pe…

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